full-disclosure - Counter-Attacking hackers? Is this really a good idea?

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Message-ID: <404D8E2F.1070804@cc.kuleuven.ac.be>
From: Rik.Bobbaers at cc.kuleuven.ac.be (harry)
Subject: Counter-Attacking hackers? Is this really a good
 idea?

Exibar wrote:
> I don't think they mean "counter-attack" when they say "counter-measures".
> counter'measures could be automatically adjusting a firewall rule or a
> router ACL to adjust to the type of attack it discovers.
> 
>   But, they do mentioned "fighting fire with fire", so that makes me
> question exactly what it is they're doing.

the fun part now:

what will the smart hacker do?
spoof your source, put it in a worm, and you've got a perfect DDoS. a
hacking protection that will attack a host (or network) of your choice

and what with NAT's?

-- 
harry
aka Rik Bobbaers

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